شلال

Concepts

waterfall

cascade

cataract

Translations

cascata

cascada

καταρράκτης

waterval

Wasserfall

şelale

cascade

cascata

chute d'eau

cascada

queda-d’água

Katarakt

catarata

cachoeira

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʃal.laːl/

Etymology

From Aramaic, but badly attested there, see شِلَّة (šilla, “hank, skein”) for what is attested in Aramaic; however Mishnaic Hebrew offers an exact שלולית (“torrent, cataract etc.”). Contaminated the root ش ل ل (š l l) with meanings of flowing on or pouring forth if those are not separately borrowed from other badly attested Aramaic forms for “flowing”.